Clinical Coding

**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time
**Position Classification**: Health Manager Level 2
**Location**: Nepean Hospital
**Remuneration**: $109,857.00 - $129,624.00 per annum
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ565120
**Applications Close**:23/04/2024
- With _**_CORE_**_ Values of _**_C_**_ollaboration, _**_O_**_penness, _**_R_**_espect and _**_E_**_mpowerment,_
- working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed_
- and develop in your chosen career role._

**About Us**
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.

Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care, coronary care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydney’s western suburbs, providing world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.

Do you have experience within clinical coding and auditing, data analysis, and provision of clinical documentation education?

We have on offer a Permanent Full Time position to join the team at Nepean Hospital within the Health Information and Records Service Department. This position is integral to ensure clinical coding and SNAP data is of high quality to accurately reflect case mix complexity, to optimise activity-based funding and support best practice standards of clinical documentation**.**

The successful incumbent will be responsible for implementation and delivery of a continuous clinical coding and SNAP data quality improvement program. This encompasses clinical documentation reviews, coding & SNAP audits and education activities for both clinicians and Clinical Coders.

**Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees**
- Accrued Day Off (ADO)
- Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
- Novated Leasing
- Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Fitness Passport
- NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here **Child Safe Standards**.

**What you will bring to the role**
- Tertiary qualifications in Health Information Management (or equivalent), or completion of a recognised clinical coding course HIMAA, OTEN)
- Demonstrated clinical coding expertise with sound knowledge of Australian Clinical Coding Standards and recent clinical coding experience; and ability to undertake quality audits and analysis at a tertiary level
- Highly developed written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills, including a capacity to liaise and negotiate with a wide range of stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to lead and implement change and positively influence senior management and clinical staff across all levels of the healthcare setting.
- Advanced computer skills required to manipulate and analyse data (using software such MS-Access and MS-Excel). Extensive experience using Patient Administration System/eMR, 3M Codefinder and other reporting systems
- Demonstrated ability to organise tasks, assign priorities and meet deadlines with mínimal supervision
- Demonstrated understanding of the relationship between Clinical Coding, Casemix, DRG & SNAP classification systems and Activity Based Funding/Management Models.

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